The Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) has participated in the Kenyatta University Career week from January 30-February 5, 2016 at the university grounds. The theme of the event is Fostering Entrepreneurship Through Talent, Innovation and Technology for Career Advancement.

The Placement Service staff interacted with students and shared information about its core functions, procedures, policies and placement criteria for placing students to Universities and Colleges.

The Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (Placement Service) is established as a State Corporation under Section 55 of the Universities Act No. 42 of 2012 with its functions being to, among others, co-ordinate the placement of Government Sponsored Students to Universities and Colleges.

The Placement Service hereby wishes to announce that the school online application system for the 2015 K.C.S.E Examination Candidates opened on September 1, 2015 and will close on January 31, 2016. The application system is open to all Schools/ Centres with 2015 K.C.S.E. Candidates wishing to apply for Degree and Diploma courses in Universities and Colleges respectively. Click Here for the application procedure.

The Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service is a State Corporation mandated to Coordinate the Placement of Government Sponsored Students to Universities and Colleges.

In the 2015/2016 placement, a total of 2,302 Government Sponsored Students were placed in the Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) by the Placement Service in line with the mandate of the Placement Service as per the Universities Act, 2012 and the Technical Vocational Education and Training Act, 2013. At the same time, KMTC admitted its own students.

After consultations, a consensus was reached that all the 2,302 students placed by the Placement Service and those admitted by KMTC be admitted in the 2015/2016 academic year in a one-off intake.

All the students placed by the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service are hereby advised to contact the Kenya Medical Training College for admission letters and other joining instructions.

Since it started operations in 2014, the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS), otherwise referred to as the Placement Service, has been operating with a lean staff. In order to serve the public better and further develop its structures, the Placement Service has recruited five professionals to join its secretariat, which is based in Nairobi.

These professionals bring in a wealth of experience and skills to the Secretariat. They were selected in a competitive process that attracted the interest of hundreds of highly qualified and competent applicants. The successful candidates reported early October 2015.

We wish to inform you that the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service has a stand at the Nairobi International ASK Show. For more information on the Placement Service functions, programmes, clusters and any other information pertaining to placement in Universities and Colleges, you are welcome to visit our stand between September 28th and October 3rd 2015.

The 2015/2016 Placement Cycle for Government-sponsored students to Universities and Colleges has concluded. Applicants who have been successfully placed and wish to apply for inter-institution transfer should note the following:

The portal for inter-institution application will be open till 30th September 2015.

Application for transfer is based on medical or socio-economic grounds.

One must have met the cutoff for the program they wish to transfer to.

The procedure is as follows:

Log in with your index number, KSCE year and birth certificate number.

Navigate to the Inter-institution transfer link under Applications.

Fill in the online inter-institution transfer form.

Download and print the completed form.

Have the form endorsed both at the institution where you wish to transfer to then where you have been placed.

Submit the forms to the Placement Service for final approval and validation.

The Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service held the third Stakeholders Forum on July 21, 2015 at the Kenya School of Government where the report of the 2015/2016 placement was released.

Students who were placed can use this link http://students.kuccps.net/ for details of where they have been placed. Those who have been placed should contact the institutions for admission letters and guiding principles.